Education in Youth Detention Homes

Drawing upon meticulous ethnographic analysis and unique data sources, this book dissects the multifaceted challenges and occasional victories encountered by both educators and detained youth in Sweden.

Autorentext

David Wästerfors is a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden. His publications include Violence - Situation, Specialty, Politics and Storytelling (Routledge, 2022), Analyze! co-authored with Jens Rennstam, Accessibility Denied (Routledge, 2022), co-edited with Hanna Egard and Kristofer Hansson, and Hidden Attractions of Administration (Routledge 2023), with Malin Åkerström, Katarina Jacobsson and Erika Andersson Cederholm. His research often focuses on interactions, institutions, emotions, and social control at the intersections of social psychology, cultural sociology, and criminology. His additional and related interests include disability research as well as ethnography and qualitative methodology.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Institutional frame 3. Accounting for setbacks and success 4. Pockets of personifications 5. School sabotage 6. Conclusion